Edward Bouverie-Hoyton

Born in Lewisham, London, Bouverie-Hoyton attended Goldsmiths' College in the years immediately following World War I. In 1926 he won the Prix de Rome in engraving, beating his friend and peer Graham Sutherland in the final, and was to spend the next three years furthering his craft there. Sutherland was to remain a life-long friend, with Bouverie-Hoyton later introducing him to luminaries of the St Ives School including Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo and Adrian Stokes.

As Vice President and Chairman at the St. Ives Society of Artists, he had close associations with the young avant-garde figures making waves in the British art world at the time.